Chapter 3: No Way

Once Charlie came to her, Clara leaned close to her ear and wispered “Do you even know who that guy was, you were feeling up?” Charlie looked at her and tilted her head. “That’s Silas and his crew of good looking men. They pretty much run this city and collect the hearts of their devoted fans. You better hope none of those girls saw that or you’ll have a big target on your back.” Charlie just looked at her with wide eyes and looked back at where Silas was standing. She locked eyes with him and looked away just has fast. No way that’s him and how long has he been staring at me. Plus, why would he let such a simple girl from a simple background get so close to him. She thought to herself.

“Let’s go find the rest of the group” she said while pulling Clara out of Silas’s eye shot. Clara just nodded and let her pull her in whatever direction she wanted.

After a while she let her mind relax from its busy thinking and just danced around with her friends. She noticed a group of guys kept pushing themselves closer to Clara and her. Charlie tried to push themselves away from them. But quickly she felt one of the guys grab her waist and pull her close to his body. She tried to push herself away from him but he just said “Not so fast, you should know dancing like that would bring you trouble” and gave her a disgusting smile. The guy then looked up and saw Silas standing behind her with an expression that could cut glass. He was so scared seeing him that he let go, grabbed his friends and instantly left the party.

Charlie smiled to herself thinking she scared him away all by herself not knowing Silas was still standing behind her. He then grabbed her hand, she did a 360 spin, tripped on her own feet and hit her head on his chest. She looked up when he heard him say, “Well aren’t you going to thank me?” She just stared into his beautiful eyes and nodded slowly. His hand was so warm and big she couldn’t think of anything else.

Say something, anything, just don’t keep standing here nodding like an idiot she kept repeating to yourself. She then reached up, grabbed the hat he was wearing and put it on her head. Charlie looked at him with sparkling eyes and told him, “If you want this hat back I guess you’ll have to stay close the rest of the night and protect me.” When I meant say something, I didn’t mean flirt boldly. She thought beating herself up.

Clara, Michael, Archie and even Silas stood there flabbergasted at the what she said. Silas just smiled, “I wouldn’t have it any other way” and pulled her close to dance with him. Neither of them looked away.

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Silas couldn’t pry his eyes away from her. Since he was so tall he was able to see her no matter how many people surrounded her on the dance floor. He locked eye with her hoping she would stare a little longer, but was disappointed when she looked away quickly.

Archie teasingly said, “It’s been one hour, didn’t you say we had to leave after one hour.” Silas waved his hand while walking away from him. He noticed Charlie was moving and didn’t want to lose sight of her so he followed. The boys chased after him surprised he was stepping foot on the dance floor.

He was never a dancer and hated being too close to people. But when he watched her dance so easily, he didn’t seem to mind being apart of the mosh pit. He didn’t let it stop him from noticing other guys watching her and was feeling a rush of anger when one guy touched his precious girl. He knew the guy was weak so with just one look he would ran off and Silas was right.

Silas chuckled has he watched Charlie from behind being so proud of herself, he was so amazed he just had to touch her. He didn’t mean to make her trip on herself while spinning but he thanked the heavens he was able to get her so close again. “Well aren’t you going to thank me.” He heard himself say. He was drowning in her sparkling eyes and couldn’t help feeling his heart skip a beat. He just hoped she didn’t feel it too.

Once she stole his hat, he couldn’t help but be surprised, he quickly changed his look to a smirk though. No way am I letting this tiger get the upper hand on me. Where did such boldness come from anyways.

The rest of the time he held her close and danced never once taking his eyes from hers.

The rest of the gang stood amazed that someone actually got Silas to dance. Archie quickly changed his thoughts when he saw Clara standing next to him, also staring at them.

“If you need something more impressive to look at, I can show you some of my moves!” Clara just look at Archie, smiled and said “Too bad you won’t be able to keep up with me!” She then turned around and disappeared into the crowd.

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